SV: [PHP4BETA] error in error_reporting() !!

> > Using PHP as an Apache module, it seems that > > Apache retains the value set by error_reporting() > > between requests. This means that whatever > > error reporting level is set within a script, > > it's inherited by all subsequent php scripts > > until changed by another error_reporting() call. > > I think php3 behaves like this as well. > I always thought this was normal. > > I've had to monitor the default settings on some hosts to make > sure I was setting it back to the right level, a pain. True pain. On a multiuser host (a webhosting environment for instance), *every* script would have to include an explicit error_reporting() call. Otherwise the user can not be sure what error-reporting level will apply at runtime. That is, IMHO, outrageous. Perhaps this is an implementational problem, running as an Apache module? A developer will have to answer that, I don't know enough about these things. > Alternatively, being able to do error_reporting(default) > would be handy. It would, but this alone wouldn't solve the problem. Every script would still have to call error_reporting() to be sure of the environment in which it's running. Why even include "error_reporting" in php.ini in the first place? Sure, it will work as a default, but as soon as _one_ script on the server starts calling error_reporting() without explicitly setting it back to the default before it exits, the "default" from php.ini can no longer be trusted by any script on the server. /Johan Ekenberg